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State cleared to send inmates out of state

Source: By DON THOMPSON, Associated Press (CA), Fri, Nov. 03, 2006


California is poised to start shipping inmates to other states as a way to relieve its overcrowded prisons after federal and state judges on Thursday rejected efforts to block the transfers.

....... Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last month ordered the moves, which would send 2,260 inmates to privately run prisons in Arizona, Indiana, Oklahoma and Tennessee.